Aki Kaurismaki famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.
-- Aki Kaurismaki

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Real film is light; digital is electricity.
-- Aki Kaurismaki

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Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.
A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.
I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.
There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
Memory is what makes us young or old.
A young man with a very good past. [Fr., Un jeune homme d'un bien beau passe.]
As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Aki Kaurismaki famous quotes

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